| Show OSCEOLA THE SEMINOLE THE INDIAN HAMLET AMONG MONG ill all great indians osceola black drink hal loor Is the alid most romantic A picturesquely tures quely dressed figure ills dark gloomy eyes ees gleaming beneath it turban decorated with three di drooping coping ostrich allumes illumes Il tallies lumes lie moves across the alie stage of indian history a red hamlet osceola was the principal leader in the war of 1835 1833 which originated in ili it a treaty made in ili 1821 it provided for the immediate cession of the Semi seminoles noles best lands in ili florida and their removal west of tile the mississippi tit at tilt the end of twenty years vears when trouble over its execution developed in 1832 the Semi seminoles noles were vere offered an other treaty requiring their removal within three years ears although seven chiefs accepted the treaty osceola and the younger lounger lenil ers declaring that they had been le tie calved refused to sign they carrl fir d r their protest to washington ashington lV I 1 hut tit president jackson wits de determine ed ad that 11 they nuitt go west eat in ill it a coun coull LII it with alth general thompson the andl till nu agent osceola proved that lie he av was as eli jally determined rushing up to tille t tip table it which the treaty ly lay hp he plunged ills his knife clrar clear through paper anti and deep into the wood had and im x claimed tile only treib I 1 will execute Is lith hh 1 after a second unsuccessful conar ence general thompson ordered osre ola thrown into prison in ill irons thlen lie agreed to sign hut but he was lyv arh temporizing for the humiliation lia 4 aroused the lie tiger in tile the heart find and lie he resolved on war in tylie toie summer of 1815 lie surrounded ftc apo soldiers under major Da desent analyst the indians alid killed iery every man mail x capt eliric tl iric on tho same lay day lie he alot sh ot down general thompson Tho I 1 I 1 then lie he looe a n storm of destri iv ir tion upon the settlers of florid la 11 when asi in holos name Is the white mail inan with tile swu awai ip ngue agile and hla his gun drops to the grouix ij I 1 na as the boast of one of III his ahle S s four generals genor alK were sent successively to conquer the Semi seminoles noles and nil all of th in filled rhen general J jesup took corn riia nl d maddened Mad deneil by the popular outcry f or decisive action jesup summoned Os eoln to it a conference under a flag of kluve anit and in violation of the most f H ml cred emblem in war lie detained det alneil I 1 lie ie chief uil and put him in ili prison esceo la ill was sent to fort moultrie 8 81 C ilelle hei liln ills brouil spirit broken fly by tile the mann 11 fit er t of ills it t rupture find and hit his imprison little it ho he died in ili january Jn nuary 1838 |
